Ripeness doctrine

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judicial restraint

...promulgate legal norms. (By contrast, in some other countries [e.g., Germany] and some American states, courts regularly decide legal issues in the absence of adversary proceedings.) Similarly, the doctrine of ripeness prevents plaintiffs from seeking judicial relief while a threatened harm is merely conjectural, and the doctrine of mootness prevents judges from deciding cases after a dispute...